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Caroline Nokes MP

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Member of Parliament for Romsey and Southampton North

 

Caroline Nokes was born in Lyndhurst in June 1972 and has lived in the immediate Romsey area all her life. She attended various local schools, including Romsey Abbey Primary School, Romsey School and La Sagesse Convent. Caroline studied for her A Levels at Peter Symonds’ College, Winchester and then read Politics and International Relations at the University of Sussex.

Caroline served as a councillor on Test Valley Borough Council, representing the Romsey Extra ward between 1999 and 2011. She was the Portfolio Holder for Leisure for nine years, having responsibility for the many leisure facilities in the Borough and the public open spaces, such as the much loved Romsey Memorial Park, Valley Park Woodlands and the well known Romsey Rapids swimming pool.

Caroline got her first job in politics, using her academic background to good effect, working as a policy adviser for her father Roy Perry, a local MEP, and gained a wide understanding of public policy development, the legislative process, and international issues. After a decade working in politics, Caroline became Chief Executive of the National Pony Society, an organisation dedicated to looking after the welfare of the British native breeds of pony, including the much loved New Forest ponies who roam free in the South Western corner of her constituency.

Caroline first stood for Parliament in Southampton Itchen in 2001 and for the Romsey constituency in 2005, before being elected to represent Romsey and Southampton North in May 2010. Caroline is the Chair of the Speaker’s Committee on the Arts and became a Parliamentary Private Secretary in the Department for Transport in December 2015.

In July 2016 Caroline was appointed a junior minister as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Work and Pensions and following the General Election of 2017 was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to the Cabinet Office and Minister for Government Resilience and Efficiency. 

In January 2018, Caroline was appointed Minister of State for Immigration at the Home Office, a Cabinet position. Accordingly, she was appointed to the Privy Council.

Presently Caroline is Chair of the Women and Equalities and Chair House of the Commons Arts Committee.

 

 

 

See also

Women's History Month 2021: Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP in conversation with Caroline Nokes MP

To mark Women's History Month 2021, House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP spoke with Caroline Nokes MP, Chair of the Women and Equalities Committee.

News

04/07/2022 MP Caroline Nokes International Women In Engineering Day Celebration

Monday, 4 July, 2022

Last week I celebrated International Women in Engineering Day with a round table for a powerful group of determined women in construction at an event organised by Roni Savage, CEO of JOMAS Associates.

03/07/2022 MP Caroline Nokes Zero Tolerance Sexual Misconduct

Sunday, 3 July, 2022

03/07/2022 MP Caroline Nokes Weekly Update

Sunday, 3 July, 2022

This weekend sees the official opening of the Duke on the Test which has been refurbished and restored over the last few months.  It is great to see the building looking so wonderful and confidence in the hospitality sector returning.  I am also looking forward to visiting Pipestock at Abbey Park

25/06/2022 MP Caroline Nokes Weekly Update

Saturday, 25 June, 2022

This week started with a speech in the British Embassy in Paris as part of the UNESCO / L’Oréal collaboration to get more women into STEM careers.  Paris in 35 degrees was challenging, but it was a privilege to be there and a useful opportunity to catch up with many truly inspirational women in s

19/06/2022 MP Caroline Nokes Weekly Update

Sunday, 19 June, 2022

It has been an important week this week celebrating a range of the diversity issues my Select Committee has been working on over the past year. This week is men's health week, which coincided with the one off session of the Committee on men's mental health.

18/06/2022 Female entrepreneurs in Romsey and Southampton North

Saturday, 18 June, 2022

By MP Caroline Nokes 

Calling all female entrepreneurs in Romsey and Southampton North

NatWest ‘100 Female Entrepreneurs to Watch’ list

18/06/2022 Caroline Nokes BAE Visit Update

Saturday, 18 June, 2022

It was fantastic to visit BAE Systems last week to hear how the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce has been embraced and to hear of their commitment to making sure their recruitment strategy drew upon the widest possible pool of talent.

17/06/2022 Caroline Nokes Equal Parental Leave Policies

Friday, 17 June, 2022

Last week I was pleased to sponsor a parliamentary event with John Lewis and Waitrose Partners, Home-Start, and Labour Markets Minister Paul Scully MP to discuss equal parental leave policies.

11/06/2022 MP Caroline Nokes Update

Saturday, 11 June, 2022

The celebrations across the whole area for last week’s Jubilee looked fantastic, and much excitement that Princess Beatrice retweeted a photograph of the packed Hundred from Thursday.  Romsey really did  put its best foot forward for a great celebration.

10/06/2022 MP Caroline Nokes - Istanbul Convention

Friday, 10 June, 2022

This week I joined 56 MPs and peers at a Parliamentary Photocall to call on the Government to make the Istanbul Convention on violence against women law without exceptions.

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Romsey office: 01794 521155

Westminster office: 0207 219 1468

caroline.nokes.mp@parliament.uk

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